Blurbs: The dean of D.C. s alternative press has compiled a vast compendium of excellence, wildness, and wonder. Perhaps somewhat predictably, I was drawn to the tales of predatory female werewolves and homicidal dogs preaching Lutheran gospel, but pretty much everybody else is here too: the downtown shrimp shack hostesses, the suburban minimum security prison escapees and the closeted death metal deacons. Nixon even wanders through, walking along the beach on his way to reincarnation. There are Vietnamese charades, hippie narcs, monkish visions of Buddhist clarity, and one loser babysitter who brings the kid along to the strip club. Sometimes surreal, often moving, and even more often perfectly hilarious, the work collected here makes D.C. s literary presence a force to be reckoned with. It s as powerful as John Riggins s shoulders, as strong as a shot at Millie and Al s, and as fun as watching the pandas get it on at the National Zoo. Well done guys. Toby Barlow, author of Sharp Teeth Stress City is a core sample of the D.C. male psyche, a tube that comes out striated with the compacted layers of what's on these guys' minds: death, race, sex, death, race, sex, death, traffic, sex.... makes me feel like I never left. Recommended for Washingtonians past and present." Jordan Ellenberg, author of The Grasshopper King "Werewolves, installation artists taking over Arlington, jilted Hare Krishnas out for murderous revenge...this isn't George Bush's Washington. In Stress City, D.C.'s small press conscience Richard Peabody has assembled a monument to the underdogs of the nation's capitol. This anthology is as poignant and truth telling as any 'official' history and way way more fun." Hal Niedzviecki, author of Hello, I m Special and The Program Authors included: R. R. Angell, Scott W. Berg, Sean Brijbasi, Peter Brown, Kenneth Carroll, Theodore Carter, Christopher Colston, Richard Currey, Kevin Downs, David Everett, Mark Farrington, Juan H. Gaddis, William E. Garrison, Frank Gatling, Brian Gilmore, John Guernsey, James Harper, Dave Housley, Bill Jackson, Dennis Jones, Matthew Kirkpatrick, Len Kruger, Robert Lang, Charles R. Larson, Nathan Leslie, Peter Levine, Greg Lipscomb, Eric Lotke, Alex MacLennan, Joe Martin, James Mathews, Richard McCann, Matthew L. Moffett, Richard Morris, Kermit Moyer, Terence M. Mulligan, Andrew Nachison, David Nicholson, Jim Patterson, Jim Reed, Jeff Richards, B. B. Riefner, Lewis K. Schrager, Matthew Summers-Sparks, D. A. Taylor, Ross Taylor, Robichaud S. Thorstensen, Tim Wendel, Jim Williamson, Terence Winch, and James Zug.

Stress City: A Big Book of Fiction by 51 DC Guys

Richard Peabody

Paycock Press

<p>53rd issue of an international literary magazine based in the Washington, D.C. area. This volume features an amazing cover by Rikki Ducornet and James C. L. Brown's provocative essay on Daisy's "Passing" in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby." The new issue is also jam-packed with fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by Roberta Allen, Nin Andrews, Lauren Baratz-Logsted, Victoria Bond, Mary Ann Cain, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Sandra M. Castillo, Kelly Cherry, Deborah Elliott Deutschman, Alex Grant, Elizabeth Hanly, Myronn Hardy, Amy Holman, Esther Iverem, George Kalamaras, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Laurence Klavan, Zane Kotker, Doug Lawson, Reb Livingston, Jonathan Lyons, Anne Marsella, Mark Maxwell, Jean McGarry, Daniel Mueller, Lance Olsen, Mary Overton, Cheryl Pallant, Jim Peterson, Holly Prado, Doug Rice, Peter Jay Shippy, Mark Smith-Soto, Laurel Snyder, Amy Bracken SParks, Richard Spilman, Laura-Gray Street, Dan Stryk, Elizabeth Swados, D.A. Taylor, Eleanor Ross Taylor, Lee Upton, Paul West, Christina Yu, and lots more. Photos from Burning Man by Mike Woolson round out the issue.</p>

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55th issue of an international literary magazine based in the Washington, D.C. area. This volume features a cover photo of the Irish poet Aoife Mannix taken by Andy Rumball, plus a batch of photos by Santa Fe-based photographer/artist Lisa Chun. The new issue features a posthumous story by DC writer David Veronese, and is also jam-packed with nonfiction about everything from Kurt Cobain to Cheese by Aaron Gilbreath, Margery Kreitman, Louise Wareham Leonard, William Minor, and Jordan Okumura, plus fiction and poetry by Sherman Alexie, Kate Braverman, Randall Brown, Chezia Thompson Cager, Sean Carman, Patrick Chapman, Alex Cigale, Heather Lynne Davis, Barbara Westwood Diehl, George Drew, Moira Egan, Espido Freire, Shelley Grabel, Robert Gregory, Susan Gubernat, Myronn Hardy, Michael Hemmingson, Mary Crockett Hill, Nik Houser, Dallas Hudgens, Richard Jones, Michael Kimball, Steve Kowit, Lyn Lifshin, Reb Livingston, Margaret McCarthy, Jen Michalski, Susan Smith Nash, Barbra Nightingale, Susan Perabo, Deborah Pintonelli, Eric Paul Shaffer, J.D. Smith, D.E. Steward, Julie Marie Wade, Ronald Wallace, Ian Williams, A.D. Winans, and lots more.

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56th issue of an international literary magazine based in the Washington, D.C. area. This volume features a cover photo by photographer Tom Chambers, plus comix by Lydia Conklin. Number 56 also features Louis E. Bourgeois's interview with the late Barry Hannah, and is also jam-packed with nonfiction about everything from life in Phnom Penh and Turkey, to strip searches and zombies by Abbie J. Bergdale, Tyler Enfield, Shannon Willitts Falk, Margaret K. Ozemet, Henry Ronan Daniell, and Irene Turner, plus fiction and poetry by Forrest Aguirre, Nin Andrews, Naoko Awa, Matt Bell, Amy Knox Brown, Nancy Naomi Carlson, Gladys Justin Carr, Joan Colby, Anne Colwell, Stephanie Dickinson, Colin Fleming, Abby Frucht, Greg Gerke, Peter Grandbois, Jim Gross, James Harms, Marc Harshman, Anna Maria Hong, David Keplinger, Zane Kotker, Dylan Landis, Marti Leimbach, Susan Maurer, Erika Meitner, Brown Miller, Weam Namou, Carissa Neff, Amy Ng, Gerald Nicosia, Saideh Pakravan, Glen Pourciau, Kathleen Rooney, Joshua Sapan, Fred Skolnik, David Starkey, Emma Straub, Susan Tepper, Anne-E. Wood, Geoss Wyss, Shellie Zacharia, and lots more.

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<p>59th issue of an international literary magazine based in the Washington, D.C. area. This volume features a cover photo by Baltimore-based photographer Ren Garczynski (randomeyecandy.com) plus cartoons by Nin Andrews. Number 59 features a reprint of Mark Terrill's o.p. chapbook "Here to Learn: Remembering Paul Bowles," plus Mark Spitzer's History of Pirated Jean Genet traanslations along with a chronology and a couple of his own, along with creative nf by Mary Carpenter and Deboraah Gold, and poetry and fiction by Karren LaLonde Alenier, Ned Balbo, Jocko Benoit, John L. Campbell, Emily Carr, Robert Cole, Mark DeCarteret, Brian Komei Dempster, Michelle Disler, Gloria Dyc, Sylva Fischerova, Piotr Florczyk, Myronn Hardy, Daniel A. Harris, Gayle Elen Harvey, Nancy Hechinger, Allison Hedge Coke, Charles Holdefer, Nik Houser, Robert Kloss, Sandra Kolankiewicz, Len Krisak, Gerry LaFemina, Lyn Lifshin, Richard Martin, Susan H. Maurer, Dora E. McQuaid, Leslie F. Miller, Delaney Nolan, Dean Rader, Susie Reynolds, Gregory Sherl, Gary J. Shipley, Noel Sloboda, Erin Elizabeth Smith, Terese Svoboda, Eleanor Ross Taylor, Thomas Vaultonburg, Tim Wendel, Paul West, Mark Wisniewski, Nicholas YB Wong, Kirby Wright, and lots more.</p>

Gargoyle #59

60th issue of an international literary magazine based in the Washington, D.C. area. This volume features a cover photo by British photographer Cassia Beck (cassiabeck.com) plus artwork by Dmitry Borshch, cartoons by Nin Andrews and Kathy Ferrell, photos by Eleanor Leonne Bennett, plus a section of pix of Baltimore Poets and Writers by Leslie F. Miller. Number 60 also features creative nf by Jim Krosschell (on Moose), Chip Livingston, Kat Meads, Doug Rice (on Freshman Year at Slippery Rock State), Curtis Smith, and Riggin Waugh (on her belly), plus poetry and fiction by Anya Achtenberg, Yesim Agaoglu, Gary Blankenburg, C.L. Bledsoe, Ann Bogle, Rae Bryant,Nancy Naomi Carlson, Patrick Chapman, Rene Char, Joan Colby, Nina Corwin, Bill Costley, Jim Daniels, Kristina Marie Darling, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Guillermo Fadanelli, Gary Fincke, Rebecca Foust, Stephen Gibson, Maria Gillan, Joe Hall, Michael Hemmingson, Nancy Hightower, David McAleavey, Teresa Milbrodt, Donaji Olmedo, Catherine Owen, David Plumb, Doug Ramspeck, Kim Roberts, Barry Silesky, Edgar Gabriel Silex, Barry Spacks, Susan Tepper, Sue Ellen Thompson, Meredith Trede, Meg Tuite, Sara Uribe, Julie Wakeman-Linn, Vallie Lynn Watson, Brandi Wells, Mary-Sherman Willis, Bill Wolak, and lots more.

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You're holding the sixth volume in a series of fiction collections by Washington area women. The series has now printed over 2,500 pages of stories, novel excerpts, and flash fiction by 249 women. In the beginning there were people who doubted I d find enough publishable stories by talented local women to fill even one volume. Joke s on them. Here are the blurbs on the 6th volume in the series-- Defying Gravity is a lucid tour through a world of love and terror, dementia and madness, longing and recovery a fascinating range of the harsh realities of everyday life with a touch of the supernatural. The breath and style of the stories in this collection is as intriguing and varied as the Washington women who write them. --Nichole Bernier, author of The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D. "Tender and edgy, witty and wild: 43 DC-area storytellers established and debut explore vanishing babies, dream jobs, renegade parents, violence, adultery, politics and the devil's own daughter. Even when they venture into darkness, these stories gleam." --Dylan Landis, author of Normal People Don't Live Like This "Richard Peabody has once again curated an eclectic menagerie of fiction written by Washingtonian women. DC is a literary city, as his devotion shows."--Shawna Kenney, author of I Was a Teenage Dominatrix and editor of Book Lovers

Defying Gravity

This is the seventh and final volume in the Grace and Gravity series of anthologies of fiction writing by women in the DC area. The series has now printed over 3,000 pages of stories, novel excerpts, and flash fiction by 300 women. The cover painting is by DC artist Lisa Montag Brotman. Here are the blurbs--Washington, DC is not a place most people associate with delicious literary fiction. But they should, and Peabody's anthologies of fiction by D.C. area women are proof. Big, rich, and frothfully fabulous, Abundant Grace is the perfect title for this latest collection to savor--or devour. -- C. M. Mayo, author of Sky Over El Nido and Miraculous Air. Having spent my life writing and reading in DC, I'm thrilled at this collection of stories by some of Washington's finest writers --- women with strong voices and bold ways with the language. These stories take us both to new places and to our familiars. The unique characters on these pages are so vividly rendered, so full of surprises, we can't help but to devour this book. You'll find every kind of wanting, unexpected joys, difficult questions and graceful answers.-- Anna March, Salon Regular Contributor. Once again, Richard Peabody has gathered together and astounding range of talent from the Washington, D.C. Area. For anyone who believes that dc is not a hotbed of daring, powerful writers, Grace and Gravity again proves them wrong.--Lucinda Ebersole, author of Death in Equality

Abundant Grace

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